Fons Laan
Scientific Developer at KNAW International Institute of Social History- Claim this Profile
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KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
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Research Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Scientific Developer
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2014 - Present
I work for the LINKS and HSN projects of prof dr Kees Mandemakers, see: http://www.iisg.nl/hsn/projects/links.html and https://socialhistory.org/en/hsn/index My LINKS work involves cleaning and normalizing genealogy data and finding matches between millions of birth, marriage and death certificates. I do this with Java, MySQL and Python; https://github.com/IISH/links For the HSN I created a mail management web application, made with Python/Django and Javascript (Qooxdoo); https://github.com/IISH/hsn-mailenbeheer/tree/fons Show less
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University of Amsterdam
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Netherlands
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Scientific Programmmer
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2009 - 2014
Software development for several projects in the field of Information Retrieval. Software created with Linux, Python/Django, Javascript frameworks, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Perl. For the DutchSemCor project, see: http://www2.let.vu.nl/oz/cltl/dutchsemcor/ Software development for several projects in the field of Information Retrieval. Software created with Linux, Python/Django, Javascript frameworks, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Perl. For the DutchSemCor project, see: http://www2.let.vu.nl/oz/cltl/dutchsemcor/
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University of Groningen
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Netherlands
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Scientific Programmer
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2005 - 2009
NWO CATCH/SCRATCH project. Image processing and software engineering for historical document analysis. Software created with Linux, Java, Python/Django, C++/Qt4, XML/XQuery. See: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~lambert/nwo-catch-scratch/index_english.html NWO CATCH/SCRATCH project. Image processing and software engineering for historical document analysis. Software created with Linux, Java, Python/Django, C++/Qt4, XML/XQuery. See: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~lambert/nwo-catch-scratch/index_english.html
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Erasmus MC
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Netherlands
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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2002 - 2005
Software (Matlab, C, Intel IPP, Qt) and firmware (C) for high-speed framing camera, for ultra-sound research. See http://www.brandaris128.nl. Software (Matlab, C, Intel IPP, Qt) and firmware (C) for high-speed framing camera, for ultra-sound research. See http://www.brandaris128.nl.
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KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
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Research Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Post-doc
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1999 - 2002
KNAW Programme Image Analysis and Visualization. Applications with and C/C++ extension modules for AVS/Express data visualization. KNAW Programme Image Analysis and Visualization. Applications with and C/C++ extension modules for AVS/Express data visualization.
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Maastricht University
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Netherlands
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Freelance Software Developer
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1991 - 1992
Software for moiré-based corneal topographer (keratometer). Image demodulation with 2D discrete Fourier transform. Software in C, plus Numerical Recipes. Software for moiré-based corneal topographer (keratometer). Image demodulation with 2D discrete Fourier transform. Software in C, plus Numerical Recipes.
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Amsterdam UMC
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Netherlands
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Scientific Investigator
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1985 - 1986
Computer-aided 3-D reconstruction of embryonic rat hearts from microscopic sections. Software in FORTRAN. Hardware: DEC computer, imaging hardware, camera, microscope. Computer-aided 3-D reconstruction of embryonic rat hearts from microscopic sections. Software in FORTRAN. Hardware: DEC computer, imaging hardware, camera, microscope.
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KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
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Research Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Scientific Programmer
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1983 - 1985
Software for the graphical representation of neuronal dendritic trees, as projections and in stereo-3D. And bi-variate regression analysis for encephalization theories. Software in VAX-FORTRAN. Software for the graphical representation of neuronal dendritic trees, as projections and in stereo-3D. And bi-variate regression analysis for encephalization theories. Software in VAX-FORTRAN.
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Delft University of Technology
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Netherlands
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Internship
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1971 - 1972
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NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre
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Netherlands
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Aviation & Aerospace
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500 - 600 Employee
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Internships
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1971 - 1972
Simulating rocket launch with civilian payload on EAI 680 analog/hybrid computer. (This cabinet-size analog computer can still be admired in the computer museum of the University of Amsterdam.) Simulating rocket launch with civilian payload on EAI 680 analog/hybrid computer. (This cabinet-size analog computer can still be admired in the computer museum of the University of Amsterdam.)
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Education
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Utrecht University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Binocular vision -
University of Amsterdam
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine -
Haarlem Business School
ing, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering